Marzieh Vafamehr

Marzieh Vafamehr (Persian: مرضیه وفامهر) is an Iranian independent filmmaker, actress, social and women's rights activist living in Tehran.

[1] She has been active in the One Million Signatures campaign in Iran for more than twenty years.

Marzieh Vafamehr is married to film director and screenwriter Nasser Taghvai.

She was arrested on 29 June 2011, reportedly due to her role in Granaz Moussavi's 2009 Iranian-Australian film My Tehran for Sale that is critical of her native Iran.

[5] Vafamehr was released after 118 days from Qarchak Prison, but banned from making or acting in films and forbidden to leave Iran.